Elie Wiesel decided to write the memoir Night because he felt he needed to share his
experience in Auschwitz and Buchenwald with other people. He also felt that he wrote it to understand
“The nature of madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind”. Or even to
preserve a record of the experience of the camps when he was a teenager. Maybe he wanted to remind
people how terrifying I was, so it would not happen again. He does not want these atrocious crimes to
be forgotten, and the perpetrators forgiven. Last, he could have written it because he refuses to forget
his mother, sisters, and father.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
b Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
Table of Contents
Dalton M. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel decided to write the memoir Night because he felt he needed to share his
experience in Auschwitz and Buchenwald with other people. He also felt that he wrote it to understand
“The nature of madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind”. Or even to
preserve a record of the experience of the camps when he was a teenager. Maybe he wanted to remind
people how terrifying I was, so it would not happen again. He does not want these atrocious crimes to
be forgotten, and the perpetrators forgiven. Last, he could have written it because he refuses to forget
his mother, sisters, and father.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
b Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
The Nazis monitored media, gave out people’s receivers, and produced propaganda movies.
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
15 high ranking Nazi officials were there, and the final solution was decided.
The final solution was the extermination of Jews.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
They were killed.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
Open Ghettoes had no walls or fences, but had restrictions on entering and leaving. These were in Ukraine.
Destruction Ghettoes were tightly sealed off and existed as temporary living until the inhabitants were moved to death camps.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
The conditions were very poor.
They would gas them and shoot them and then burn them.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Hitler shot himself.
12 defendants were charged, they represented Nazi Germany.
The defense was that they were only following orders.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Crematorium
Red and cold
Burning, killing, forgetting
Like a monster, as cold as Antarctica
A killing machine
To kill and to forget